Term

What are the two variations of the trolley dilemma and what did the fMRI experiment with it find?

Definition

Pushing someone to their death is more emotionally and socially salient than the thought of hitting a switch causing a trolley to produce the same result. Brain areas involved in emotion and social thinking were more involved in the second task - it also took for those who went against their initial emotional response not to push the person longer to decide to do it - mindful pause and think

Term

What are the four kinds of self-control according to Baumeister?

Definition

1. Thoughts 2. Emotions 3. Impulses 4. Performance

Term

Thoughts - self-control according to Baumeister

Definition

Getting certain thoughts out of our minds